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Balochistan Awami Party terms PTI's remarks against military a "lust for p
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 10 (ANI): Pakistan's Balochistan Awami Party lambasted former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's party leadership for "negative and misleading" statements against state institutions and urged the judiciary to intervene, media reports said.
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Islamabad HC gives Pak govt 2 months to find missing persons
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 10 (ANI): The Islamabad High Court has given the Pakistan government two months to take measures in order to recover missing persons and criticized the government for its sheer apathy in the matter, media reports said.
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Despite revival of IMF plan, Pakistan faces severe liquidity crunch
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 10 (ANI): Pakistan is still witnessing a severe dollar liquidity crunch despite the resumption of the last month of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme, local media reported adding the floods in the country have aggravated the macroeconomic fundame
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Imran Khan believes fresh election only solution to end instability in Pak
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 10 (ANI): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan on Friday said that fresh election is the only way to end the instability in the country, local media reported.
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Pakistan to start clearing dues of Chinese power projects from next week:
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 10 (ANI): Pakistan has announced that it will start making payments to the independent power producers (IPPs) set up under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor from next week, local media reported on Saturday.
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UN General Secretary says Pakistan needs massive financial support for reh
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 10 (ANI): United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday said that Pakistan needed "massive" financial support for relief, recovery and rehabilitation in the wake of the catastrophic floods that displaced more than 33 million people and are est
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Pakistan drops seven spots to 161st rank in Human Development Index
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 10 (ANI): Pakistan has dropped seven spots to 161 out of 192 countries in the latest human development rankings released on Thursday by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
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Pakistan: Economic loss due to floods rises to around USD 18 billion
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 10 (ANI): The estimated economic loss due to the unprecedented floods in Pakistan has neared around USD 18 billion, an increase from USD 12.5 billion estimated earlier, as calculated by the Centre and endorsed by the provinces.
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USAID chief extends full support to Pakistan to help mitigate disastrous i
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 10 (ANI): United States Agency for International Development (USAID) chief Samantha Power on Friday called on Pakistan's Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and extended full support to Pakistan to help mitigate the disastrous impacts of ravaging floods.
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Will be more dangerous if jailed, threatens PTI chief Imran Khan over terr
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 10 (ANI): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan on Thursday threatened that he would become more dangerous if sent to jail while expressing displeasure over the heavy deployment of police outside the Islamabad High Court during the hearing of a terro
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Islamabad High Court judge lambasts Pak govt apathy over missing persons c
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 9 (ANI): Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Athar Minallah on Friday criticized the Pakistan government's apathy over missing persons cases and said that the government should resign if subordinate institutions are not under control.
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Week-long hunger strike in front of UN to protest Pakistan's 'genocidal at
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 9 (ANI): Protesting the human rights violations and genocidal atrocities against Sindhis committed by the Pakistani state, its security agencies and the successive governments, a week-long Sindh Hunger Strike was announced in front of the UN offices during the
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